Global AIDS Policy

by Douglas A. Feldman

Overview

An estimated 17 million people are infected with HIV today, and it is estimated that in Africa alone there will be at least 70 million people infected in the next 25 years. This global pandemic has already had a profound impact economically and socially in terms of expensive research, care centers, and immeasurable loss of many of the world's most talented people. Sexual relations, health care of non-infected individuals, family relations, and other social institutions have been significantly marked by this elusive and to date life-threatening phenomenon. Topics range from breastfeeding to condom use, from apathetic governments to immigration policy. Dr. Feldman and his contributors evaluate various policies that have been proposed or adopted on four continents and provide a needed perspective on planetary problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897892827
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/30/1994
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

DOUGLAS A. FELDMAN is a Medical Anthropologist and President of D. A. Feldman & Associates, a behavioral and program evaluation organization in Hollywood, Florida. He is co-editor of The Social Dimensions of AIDS (Praeger, 1986) and editor of Culture and AIDS (Praeger, 1990). Dr. Feldman has conducted AIDS social research on adolescents in Zambia, persons with AIDS in Rwanda, dentists in Florida, and gay men in New York and Florida . He founded the AIDS and Anthropology Research Group of the Society for Medical Anthropology and co-founded the American Anthropological Association's Task Force on AIDS.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction by Douglas A. Feldman
Behind the Wall of China: AIDS Profile, AIDS Policy by Vincent E. Gil
Public Policy, Political Activism, and AIDS in Brazil by Richard G. Parker
The Response of Non-Governmental Organization in Latin America to HIV Infection and AIDS: A Vehicle for Grasping the Contribution NGOs Make to Health and Development by Pamela Hartigan
HIV, Immigration Policy, and Latinos/as: Public Health Safety versus Hidden Agendas by Norris G. Lang
Culture, Sexual Behavior and Attitudes towards Condom Use among Baganda Women by Charles B. Rwabukwali, Debra A. Schumann, Janet W. McGrath, Cindie Carroll-Pankhurst, Rebecca Mukasa, Sylvia Nakayiwa, Lucy Nakyobe, and Barbara Namande
AIDS in Ghana: Priorities and Policies by Robert W. Porter
Apartheid and the Politics of AIDS by Virginia van der Vliet
The Politics of International Health: Breastfeeding and HIV by Dana Raphael
AIDS Policy and the United States Political Economy by Michael D. Quam
Acting Up Academically: AIDS and the Politics of Disempowerment by M.E. Melody
Ethnography, Epidemiology, and Public Policy: Needle Use Practices and HIV-1 Risk Reduction among Injecting Drug Users in the Midwest by Robert G. Carlson, Harvey A. Siegal, and Russel S. Falck
AIDS Risk Behavior among Drug Injectors in New York City: Critical Gaps in Prevention Policy by Michael C. Clatts, W.R. Davis, Sherry Deren, Douglas S. Goldsmith, and Stephanie Tortu
Conclusion by Douglas A. Feldman
Index

Editorial Reviews

In general, politicians and biomedical administrators have set the direction for global AIDS policy until now and, by and large, the policy has failed. It is the premise of this volume that to effectively accomplish the control of HIV on a global scale, it will be necessary to replace political considerations and a biomedical approach with a public health and social science approach. Among the topics in 14 original chapters: public policy, political activism, and AIDS in Brazil; AIDS in Ghana--priorities and policies; and AIDS policy and the United States political economy. The volume grew in part out of two seminars chaired by the editor in 1990 and 1991. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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